Show Plants Have He Hearts and Brains Noted Hindu Scientist Claims CALCUTTA Jan 2 2 United d Press Plesa Press From From the depths of his ex extraordinary extraordinary ex- ex plant laboratory on the banks of the Sir Chandra Bose has stirred up widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread controversy both controversy both scientific and religious religious religious-by by his announcement that he has discovered in plants a ahEart aheart aheart heart and a nervous system which function exactly like those of man In Ir addition h he hints that he has found evidence pointing to the existence existence existence ex ex- ex- ex of brains in plants To the dev devOut tit who will not eat the tho flesh of animals because animals have souls Sir announcement has come like a bombshell for it tends to break breakdown breakdown breakdown down the tho distinction which has hitherto existed between plants and animals The Tho conscientious therefore faces starvation for if the new theor theory is correct then a plateful of rice is a graveyard graveyard graveyard grave grave- yard and this he cannot endure The controversy has has deeply stirred the vernacular press and lengthy let letters ers appear pro pro and ana con In some somo circles the new theory has displaced laced politics and and in absorbing interest But Sir scientific colleagues colleagues col cot leagues have noticeably withheld their verdict on his extraordinary discovery if discovery it be Their complaint is that while Sir has written many learned books and monographs on the problems lems of plant life he e ha has not yet informed his fellow scientists just how he has reached his astounding conclusions They Intimate that the truly scientific method is to submit the data freely to the scientific world before It Is Js given to lay- lay They suggest In anonymous anonymous lett letters rs to the press signed Veritas and Cautious that the Bose institute tute amply tute-amply amply endowed by its wealthy wealth founder the scientist himself himself- should invite the leading scientists familiar with the field of nervous Irritability of plants plants' to Investigate Sir researches and report lepOrt to the world But Sir who is 67 years old old has concentrated on his fa favorite favorite fa- fa problem for the past thirty- thirty five years he now seems too absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab in the wonderland he has found to ro listen to the controversy raging about him |